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Started at 2.5mg in February, currently at 7.5mg. Weight is down 22 lbs which is great. But around the 3rd month, my energy crashed hard, like, dragging myself through the day tired.

I mentioned it to my prescriber and they ordered labs, fasting insulin dropped from 17 to 5 (good) but testosterone also dropped slightly; 480 to 410. They think it's a caloric restriction and rapid weight loss effect on hormone production.

Has anyone else seen a testosterone dip while losing weight on tirzepatide? Did it self correct or did you need to do something about it?

Two year cycle on this thing is relentless. My ACLS is coming up and driving to Sacramento or the Bay Area for it is not something I want to do again..half my day gone for a 45 minute skills check.

PA at a clinic in Vacaville, AHA only and Hybrid (has teleconsult). Does anyone know if there's actually something local in Solano County or is this still a Sacramento trip? TIA!

Every year people wait until there's a storm in the Gulf to start looking at this stuff and then it's either sold out or you're paying rush shipping. Here are the options worth knowing about before that happens written for people who don't care about specs and just want their fridge and phone to work.

Worksport COR lets you pull the battery out and put a fresh one in while everything is still running so the fridge never actually turns off. One battery covers about 16 to 18 hours, two batteries gets you past 32 hours without any interruption. You start with one battery and add more later without replacing the main unit. Starts at $949 for the hub and one battery.

Jackery Explorer 1000 is the easiest one to recommend to someone who just wants a simple no fuss unit. Plug stuff in, it runs, charges back up when you have power again. Keeps a standard fridge going roughly 10 to 12 hours. It's not the longest runtime on this list but for a short outage it gets the job done and you don't need to read a manual to use it. Around $700 to $800.

Goal Zero Yeti 1000X is a step up in terms of reliability over time and it handles cold storage better than most which matters if your power goes out in winter or if you keep it in a garage. Fridge runtime is around 11 to 13 hours. Charges slowly from a wall outlet so you need to plug it in the night before if you want it full.

EcoFlow Delta 2 recharges faster than anything else on this list, about 80 minutes from empty to full, which is huge if power comes back for a few hours and then goes out again. Runs a fridge about 14 hours. Port selection is great, you can charge multiple things at once without thinking about it.

Bluetti AC200P holds enough for almost two days of fridge power on its own, around 18 to 20 hours. It's big and heavy though, closer to 60 lbs, so it's not something you move around easily. If it's going to sit in one spot in your house and just be there when you need it, it's worth looking at.

If you've never lost power for more than a day, the EcoFlow Delta 2 is probably the easiest choice. If you've been through a longer storm is what stresses you out, Worksport is the best one for long outages on this list.

The standard dropship support stack at some point becomes a helpdesk for tickets, a FAQ builder that nobody updates, a chat widget that routes to neither and a separate order tracking tool and none of them talk to each other properly so the shopper falls through the gap every time the question is even slightly nuanced. The conversion hit from that fragmentation isn't just about support quality, it's about pre purchase conversations that die because the chat widget can't pull the product catalog and the FAQ doesn't cover the specific supplier variant question.

For dropship where the catalog changes constantly and supplier data is always partially stale, does consolidating to one conversational layer move the needle?

We're a neobank, mid-sized team. Glassbox handles compliance properly but operating it has turned into a second job. Every data subject request is a manual workflow. The DPA documentation keeps needing updates as the platform evolves and the whole tool assumes a compliance team we don't have.

We need behavioral analytics on our KYC and payment flows but we're a 40-person company not a 400-person one.

Looking for published studies comparing compounded semaglutide PK profiles to Novo's formulation. I'm trying to figure out if the cost difference, compounded at $149-297/mo from places like Ro, Henry Meds, or Ozari vs brand name, is just markup or actual formulation variance.

Most telehealth providers use 503B pharmacies but don't disclose salt base type. fda mentioned semaglutide base vs sodium concerns in 2023 but i can't find comparative AUC/Cmax data. Anyone seen research on this?

Thinking about Greece mainly for residency, not just a holiday flat. Idea is buy one place, get the Golden Visa, spend some time there and keep an EU base long term. I’ve been reading Greece-Golden-Visa-net, GetGoldenVisa and some official docs to check the current numbers and rules. Looks ok on paper but it's hard to see real experiences. Anyone here actually did Greece or decided to skip it? How do you feel about the property risk and time in country compared to other programs?

About two months in on BJJ and the gym gave me a loaner for the first few weeks which was fine but I want my own. I've been looking online and the price range is kind of wild, anywhere from $60 to $200+ and I can't figure out what the actual difference is at my level. I've read the "just get a cheap one because you might quit" argument and I get it but I've also read the "buy once, cry once" argument and I also get that. Not sure which one is smarter here.

How much does weave type actually matter right now? Is a single weave going to fall apart faster or is that more relevant at higher levels where you're washing it more often?

I know there's a megathread but I felt like this was specific enough to warrant its own post. Happy to be redirected if not.

Looking at Portugal Golden Visa using a CMVM‑regulated hospitality fund instead of property. I’ve been comparing Mercan, some funds I found via GetGoldenVisa and Nomad Gate and the explanations on Portugal-golden-visa-net, that last one feels more investment memo than sales pitch but it’s still hospitality heavy so I’m cautious. If you already invested 500k in a fund for residency, how did you handle,, sector risk hotels, long lockup and whether to rely on the platform’s immigration lawyers vs hiring your own?

I've been comparing telehealth pricing and it's all over the place. Henry Meds was $297/mo but they had stock problems recently, Ro charges around $249-299 depending on your dose tier.

I also checked Ozari site which shows $149/mo for compounded semaglutide but not sure what concentration that includes. Anyone tried them?... my main question though, are these pharmacies 503A or 503B? FDA guidance on compounding makes it seem like this matters for quality control but nobody lists it clearly.

What are you actually paying and has the product been consistent?

I know you can pay with Android via Google Pay. But can it work the other way where you're the merchant and a customer taps their card on your Android?

Trying to understand if this is hardware dependent or if the NFC chip can handle both directions

The actual problem isn't collecting behavioral signals. Most teams have that covered across LinkedIn, ads, page visits, content interactions. The problem is that all of it lives in different places and by the time someone correlates it, decides it's worth acting on, and manually kicks off an outreach sequence, the moment is gone.

What we keep running into is the action layer being completely disconnected from the detection layer. A contact engages with three pieces of content, clicks an ad, visits a pricing page. None of that adds up to anything in real time because each signal is sitting in a separate tool with no shared logic underneath.

We tried stitching things together in Zapier and it worked until it didn't. Every time a platform changes something on their end the whole thing breaks and you only find out when someone asks why outreach stopped. Is there a setup that actually handles both sides without requiring a dedicated ops person to keep it running?

Okay, I just need to vent. So, I caved in and bought a robot vacuum.. thought it would be the magical solution to my pet hair problem. I have two cats and as any cat owner knows, they shed like there’s no tomorrow. My carpets were basically a sea of fur and I figured a robot vacuum would help keep it under control.

But here’s the thing: every time I let this little guy loose on the carpet, it’s like it hits a brick wall. It gets tangled in the hair, stalls, and then starts beeping at me as if it’s pleading for help. I’ve cleaned the brushes, adjusted its settings, even rearranged my furniture to make it easier for the vacuum to navigate, but nothing works.

I honestly don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or if this is just a case of "robot vacuums and carpet don’t mix." It’s like the carpet is its worst enemy and I just want to know if anyone has had a similar experience. Are there any tricks I’m missing? I seriously want to make this work but I’m starting to think my cats are just too much for a tiny robot vacuum to handle.

Am I alone in this? Can anyone else with a house full of pets and carpets give me some hope or advice? Because right now, I’m just looking at the vacuum like, “Really? Again?” :(

My son is in fifth grade, he's a strong student, reads two grade levels ahead, genuinely loves writing and he bombed the written portion of his state assessment last spring.

His teacher was confused, I was confused, he was confused, and it took three conversations before someone finally mentioned that the test is fully computer based now and timed and my son types slowly enough that he consistently runs out of time before he can get down everything he knows.

He wasn't failing to understand the material. He was failing to physically produce his understanding fast enough on a keyboard.

I didn't know this was a thing. Nobody told me this was a thing. The school sends home practice packets for reading comprehension and math fluency, there is no packet that says "your child also needs to be able to type at a functional speed or the test format itself will penalize him regardless of what he knows" and I genuinely feel like that information should have been surfaced earlier than the spring of fifth grade.

We spent all summer working on it. He tested faster this year. But I'm still angry that the variable nobody mentioned turned out to be the one that mattered most.

I have been trying to generate videos and all I get is moderated. I understand that i2v is dead but at least other types should go through. Every result I get is bad. Tried Gemini and it is even twice as bad.

Vendor lock in risk for SaaS tools is well understood. Pricing power increases after switching costs accumulate. Data portability clauses get tested when you actually try to leave. Most enterprise procurement teams have frameworks for evaluating and managing this.

AI coding tools with persistent context engines create a new flavor of vendor lock in that isn't well covered by existing frameworks. After eighteen months of building organizational context in a vendor's format, that context represents a significant accumulated asset. The question most teams aren't asking at procurement time is what happens to that asset if you need to switch tools. Can you export the context in a portable format? Does the export actually work with other tools or is it just a data dump that you'd have to rebuild from? What's the contractual commitment around context portability? If your organizational context is hosted on vendor infrastructure and you're in a dispute with the vendor, what's your leverage? The context layer you've built over eighteen months may be operationally critical to your development workflow by that point.

We've started treating context portability and export capability as a first tier evaluation criterion alongside security posture and deployment architecture. It's not glamorous but it's the kind of thing you want to have negotiated before you've spent a year building context rather than after.

I’d like a more serious take on something that usually gets discussed in a very casual way. There are quite a few websites that sell digital gift cards for platforms like Apple, PlayStation and Steam, sometimes with small discounts or region specific codes that aren’t easily available in everyy country. On the surface it looks harmless but there are layers i don’t fully understand: where the cards originally come from, how much fraud/chargeback risk is being pushed onto the end user and whether using these sites meaningfully increases the chance that someone in the chain is getting treated unfairly,.. I’ve used one such site…CardDelivery for a low value test and have seen others mention services like CardCash or Gift Card Granny as normal but i’m not sure if this ecosystem is basically a legitimate secondary market or if it’s built on dynamics most of us would be uncomfortable with if we saw them up close. From an ethical and practical standpoint, do you see a meaningful difference between buying digital gift cards directly from the platform versus through these intermediaries?

Content with where I landed but the journey was not what I expected. Spent six weeks running a rule-based options bot (OptionBots) alongside an "AI agent" wrapper (one of the GPT-style trading copilots, name held back because the experience was bad enough I don't want to call them out without giving them a chance to fix it).

How they actually differ:

Rule-based bot Decision logic: explicit if-then conditions you define Predictability: high, fully traceable, every action has a rule Setup: front-loaded, an evening to define rules Cost: around $200 a month flat Performance: consistent on routine tasks, blind to what wasn't anticipated

AI agent Decision logic: LLM reasoning over market context Predictability: low, sometimes erratic Setup: faster initial setup, longer feedback loop to tune Cost: $50 to $150 a month plus token costs Performance: inconsistent, sometimes catches edges, sometimes hallucinates them

On the rule-based side, the wheel automation through OptionBots was boring, repeatable, did exactly what I wrote. Six weeks, no surprises. That's the bar I went in looking for.

The AI agent was a different story. It would close a position because the model "felt" the position was deteriorating. Sometimes it was right, often it wasn't, and there was no way to audit the reasoning past whatever the agent surfaced in its trade log. Once it skipped opening a position because of a news event the model had hallucinated. I checked, the news didn't exist.

Key finding: for options specifically, the variance the AI agent introduced was worse than the variance my own emotions introduced. I went into this thinking AI agents would be the next step up from rule-based bots. After six weeks I think they're a side step into worse problems.

AI is genuinely useful for signal generation (flagging unusual activity, summarizing earnings calls, surfacing volatility setups), educational explanation, post-trade analysis. Anywhere the model doesn't pull the trigger. Pulling the trigger is where it falls apart.

IMO rule-based wins for execution. AI is a good research analyst, a bad trader. NFA.

Eight years in tile work, for most of that time cash and check were the default and card was the exception, I had a reader for the occasional card job and it was fine.

Something shifted in the last two years, the card requests are more frequent, younger clients especially seem genuinely surprised when cash is the preference, had one last month who didn't have a checkbook and couldn't get to an ATM until the next day, small job but I waited an extra day for payment on work I'd already done and delivered.

How are you handling payment on site and do you ask for anything in advance?